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“Envisaging death calmly is valid only if one envisages it alone. Death in the company of the beloved is no death, even for unbelievers. The painful thing is not to leave life, but to leave whatever gives it meaning. When love is one’s life, what is the difference between living together and dying together?”

“I have never been a dreamer. What appears dream to others more credulous than I seems to me to be as real as cheese to the cat—in spite of the glass that covers it. Yet the glass does exist.”